More ACORN Allies Abandon Ship
September 30, 2009
Senator Al Franken - who once gushed that he was “more motivated than ever to work with ACORN” - has finally “got religion” according to Katherine Kersten, writing in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Franken joined 83 other Senators in voting to slash funds for the disgraced group, but President Obama has refused to say whether he’d sign legislation to remove ACORN from the federal trough.
Kersten alludes to ACORN’s role in helping Franken sneak into the Senate, nothing that ACORN “is best-known for its massive voter-registration campaigns, which focus relentlessly on getting Democrats elected in target states.” All true, but she neglects to mention allegations by the legislative watchdog group Minnesota Majority concerning “a number of irregularities” in Minnesota’s voter registration records - including the registration of dead people and convicted felons at a time when ACORN was bragging about registering 80,000 new voters in time for the 2008 elections.
Calls for an investigation were quickly quashed by Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, whose campaign was bankrolled in part by the Secretary of State Project - a political operation funded by hedge fund billionaire George Soros to help sway close elections to liberal Democrats.
Do ACORN and the Secretary of State Project have any formal working relationship? Can’t say - but they are certainly toiling in the same vineyards.